Penalty corner execution requires improvement, says Indian women's hockey team coach Schopman

World Cup debacle in the Commonwealth Games. The Commonwealth Games will be held in Birmingham from July 28 to August 8, and India will look to stage a turnaround there after finishing a lowly ninth in the World Cup, a year after their historic fourth place finish in the Tokyo Olympics. "Our performance in the World Cup was not good enough in terms of outcome. We created a lot of penalty corners which is good, but executing was not right," the Dutchwoman said a day after the team's arrival here.

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"There are many reasons for that. We struggled with our injections. It's a different field than we typically train on. I don't think we adapted that well. It has to do with perfecting your execution which we will look to focus on in the next couple of weeks." India struggled badly in converting their penalty corners in the World Cup. Statistics show that India could convert only four out of the 43 opportunities they got over six games. The Janneke-coached side had Gurjit Kaur as its designated penalty corner expert, but they also experimented with players like Monika and Deep Grace Ekka which clearly did not work out. The worst was against group toppers New Zealand when they converted only once from 13 chances to go down 3-4, dealing a big blow to their qualifying hopes. "As with every skill, it's about a multitude of